After a few (far too many) weeks, we finally re-racked the Teaching Ale. It was fairly straightforward. Just as before, we meticulously cleaned and sanitized everything that will touch the young beer. We cleaned the keg and a hose. To siphon the beer, we first moved the carboy to a the counter and the keg […]

Mike and I decided we wanted to brew up a hard cider for the winter. In contrast to most commercial American ciders, we wanted to put together a hard, tart cider. The closest commercial examples we found were British ciders. We found French and Belgian ciders to be nice, but we didn’t really like their […]

This one is in bottles right now! It was loosely based on “Whitey’s Gone Fishin’ Pale Ale” found in The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. Again, we couldn’t help but make some changes. Brewed July 12, 2009 6:45 PM Two gallons of bottled spring water, six pounds golden light Briss malt extract, 0.6 lbs Alexander’s Sun […]